WUWT has a good article about the Texas situation. Basically in Texas you don't get paid for available capacity but for vomiting power onto the grid, which incentivizes solar and wind because they have no guaranteed capacity and just vomit power on the grid when available. So while green power sucks it's really more that green power policy sucks.
WUWT has a good article about the Texas situation. Basically in Texas you don't get paid for available capacity but for vomiting power onto the grid, which incentivizes solar and wind because they have no guaranteed capacity and just vomit power on the grid when available. So while green power sucks it's really more that green power policy sucks.